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There's a shower coming. Answered

From my inbox:

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, August 12th. The best time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday morning when forecasters expect 50 to 100 meteors per hour. Get away from city lights if you can; plan a camping trip! The darker the sky, the more meteors you will see.

The source of the Perseids is Comet Swift-Tuttle, which has littered the August portion of Earth's orbit with space dust. The dusty zone is broad and Earth is already in its outskirts. As a result, even before the peak on August 12th, you may see some "early Perseids" streaking across the night sky. Photos of these early arrivals will be featured in the days ahead on Spaceweather.com as part of our full coverage of the Perseid meteor shower.

Being on holiday, I will be spending most of the shower either under city lights or in the wettest (and hence cloudiest) part of Britain, and unable to lay out large tarpaulins to catch rainwater.

So, I won't be able to go fishing, or get time out to watch them. I wonder - will you?

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I remember once I was at my friends house, and we kept seing weird things in the sky. So when I went home, I searched it up, and some website said (I can't remember the date so I'm gonna make one up): Suprise meteor shower April 27th!!! So I went out to see them and they were cool.
And another time there was a Geminide meteor shower. I saw a few. But over my neighbors house there was this crazy meteor that looked brighter than a light bulb, and looked about the size of an indian head penney (Not to scale so that's actually HUGE!), and it just appeared over my neighbors house and did a tiny "half-horseshoe". Good times...

I thank you so much for saying that. I didn't know it was at night also! I saw like 5 or 6 bright ones. One just shot litterally almost 3/4 across the sky. I loved it. I wouldn't have seen anything if it weren't for you.

Looks interesting, unfortunately I missed the peak of it. I live in London and it was overcast that night so i wouldn't have been able to have seen them anyway...
I have seen the geminids (I don't think I spelled that right) before with my family(my dads an astronomer by hobby).

I went out tonight, being in a fairly well populated area and not being bothered to go deep into the countryside the visibility wasn't great, but a quick bike out of town rewarded me with two very intense vivid orange meteors, 10 or 15 smaller ones and two satellites.
Also, just on a random note, I saw a moonset- that was quite cool.